612 LOUIS AGASSIZ, 



I should like to go on and attempt to devise 

 some scheme in conformity with the convic- 

 tions I have expressed in these letters. But 

 I have little ability in the way of organizing, 

 and then the subject is so novel that I am not 

 prepared to propose anything very definite. 

 Ever truly yours, 



Louis Agassiz. 



FROM DR. S. G. HOWE. 



New York, August 18, 1863. 



My dear Agassiz, — I cannot refrain from 

 expressing my thanks for your prompt compli- 

 ance with my request, and for your two valu- 

 able letters. 



Be assured I shall try to keep my mind 

 open to conviction and to forbear forming 

 any theory before observing a wide circle of 

 facts. I do not know how you got the idea 

 that I had decided in favor of anything about 

 the future of the colored population. I have 

 corresponded with the founders of "La So- 

 ciete Cosmopolite pour la fusion des races 

 humaines " in France, — an amalgamation so- 

 ciety, founded upon the theory that the per- 

 fect man is to be the result of the fusion of 

 all the races upon earth. I have not, however, 

 the honor of being a member thereof. In- 



